Adiah Michelle

They wore platform shoes, smoked grass, and grew Afros. This wasn’t, however, Haight-Ashbury. I’m referring to Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. Here, musicians like Paul Ngozi, Rikki Ililonga, and Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda through tragedy, produced Zamrock, a hybrid of traditional African music, funk rhythms, and psychedelic fuzz guitars inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple’s bluesy sound. The sound and soul found in Zamrock was a result of the citizens new found freedom. On 24 October 1964, Zambia became independent of the United Kingdom and prime minister Kenneth Kaunda became the inaugural president. His plan was to modernize. The British upper class

Music lovers often imagine what it’d be like to perform on stage with their rock favorites, but producer Andrew Watt got the opportunity to do just that earlier this year when he joined Pearl Jam for their Ohana Festival performances and rocked their legendary song “Alive.”